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Copper question? And is this a good diet?

Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:21 pm
by CaptMicha
I looked this up on here but couldn't find a definitive answer. Is it bad for copper sulphate/sulfate to be in shrimp's food or not? I read that it's toxic to them but I read else where that every living thing requires copper. So which one is it??

And does this sound like a good staple (commercial) diet for them?

Guaranteed Analysis:
Crude Protein, min, 25.0%
Crude Fat, min, 4.0%
Crude Fiber, max, 12.0%
Moisture content, max, 8.0%
Ash, max, 8.0%
Calcium (Ca), min, 2.8%
Calcium (Ca), max, 3.2%
Phosphorous (P), min, .7%
Vitamin A Acetate, min, 30,000IU/kg
Vitamin D3, min, 6,000IU/kg

Ingredients: Hempola® hemp seed meal, honey powder, calcium caseinate (source of isolated protein), bee pollen, alfalfa leaf meal, brewers yeast, defatted wheat germ meal, calcium carbonate, dicalcium phosphate, yeast culture, spirulina algae, rose hips powder, kelp meal, haemotococcus tocopherols (as a preservative), vitamin A acetate, D-activated animal sterol (source of vitamin D3), dried aspergillus oryzae fermentation extract, dried aspergillus niger fermentation extract, dried lactobacillus product, dried bifidobacterium thermophilum fermentation product, dried bifidobacterium longum fermentation product, dried enterococcus faecium fermentation product, and dried bacillus subtillis fermentation product.

Re: Copper question? And is this a good diet?

Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:22 pm
by Neonshrimp
This thread will be helpful in answering your question:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2649&hilit=copper+food

You should also use the search function to search key words "copper food" to find more information.

Re: Copper question? And is this a good diet?

Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:23 pm
by CaptMicha
I looked this up on here but couldn't find a definitive answer.
Which means that I already read that thread and didn't find a definitive answer which is why I posted.

Re: Copper question? And is this a good diet?

Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 11:15 pm
by Neonshrimp
I hope you find what you are looking for :-)

Re: Copper question? And is this a good diet?

Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 5:58 am
by nick11380
The Ingredients you have listed tells me that this is a low quality food. I personally don't feed foods that contain (meals). For example: look for foods that list (whole) fish and (fresh) kelp. Not fish (meal) and kelp (meal). Most of the fish foods that I've looked at contain a lot of different meals. But there are couple good brands that don't.